Remove XML nodes with XQuery in a shell

Sample XML:

<outerTag>
  <innerElement>
    <Id>1234</Id>
    <fName>Kim</fName>
    <lName>Scott</lName>
<customData1>Value1</customData1>
<customData2>Value2</customData2>
    <position>North<position>
    <title/>
  </innerElement>
  <innerElement>
    <Id>5678</Id>
    <fName>Brian</fName>
    <lName>Davis</lName>
<customData3>value3</customData3>
<customData4>value4</customData4>
<customData5>value5</customData5>
    <position>South<position>
    <title/>
  </innerElement>
</outerTag>

Expected output:

<outerTag>
  <innerElement>
    <Id>1234</Id>
    <fName>Kim</fName>
    <lName>Scott</lName>
    <customData1>Value1</customData1>
    <customData2>Value2</customData2>
    <position>North<position><title/></position>
  </position>
  </innerElement>
</outerTag>

I know I can just use the good select Xpath to do the trick, but I try to figure how to properly delete using XQuery and xidel.

I tried from this:

xidel --xml -e '
    let $element := //innerElement[not(Id["1234"])]
    declare function local:process-xml ($element) {
        $element update delete node
    }
' file.xml

I get:

An unhandled exception occurred at $00000000006174CA:
ERangeError: Range check error
  $00000000006174CA
  $000000000061782C
  $0000000000629536
  $000000000062E638
  $000000000055C12B

Or

$ xidel --xquery '
    let $element := //innerElement[./not(Id["1234"])]
    declare function local:process-xml ($element) {
        $element update delete node                                                  
    }
' file.xml

I get the same error.

Or with pure XQuery:

$ xidel --xml --xquery '
    let $input := /outerTag
    modify delete node $input/innerElement[Id ne "1234"]
    return $input
' file.xml

I get error:

Error:
err:XPST0003: Missing whitespace or symbol
in line 2 column 5
    modify delete node $input/innerElement[Id ne "1234"]
    ^^^^  error occurs around here

Frustrating xidel can't handle this pure XQuery solution.

Here is a pure XQuery solution, tested in BaseX 10.5

XQuery

declare context item := document {
<outerTag>
    <innerElement>
        <Id>1234</Id>
        <fName>Kim</fName>
        <lName>Scott</lName>
        <customData1>Value1</customData1>
        <customData2>Value2</customData2>
        <position>North</position>
        <title/>
    </innerElement>
    <innerElement>
        <Id>5678</Id>
        <fName>Brian</fName>
        <lName>Davis</lName>
        <customData3>value3</customData3>
        <customData4>value4</customData4>
        <customData5>value5</customData5>
        <position>South</position>
        <title/>
    </innerElement>
</outerTag>
};

copy $input := .
modify delete node $input/outerTag/innerElement[Id ne "1234"]
return $input

Output

<outerTag>
  <innerElement>
    <Id>1234</Id>
    <fName>Kim</fName>
    <lName>Scott</lName>
    <customData1>Value1</customData1>
    <customData2>Value2</customData2>
    <position>North</position>
    <title/>
  </innerElement>
</outerTag>

XQuery #2

With file name as a parameter

Windows Version:

declare base-uri 'e:\Temp\';
declare option db:stripws "true";

copy $input := doc("input.xml")
modify delete node $input/outerTag/innerElement[Id ne "1234"]
return $input

Linux Version:

copy $input := doc("/tmp/file.xml")
modify delete node $input/outerTag/innerElement[Id ne "1234"]
return $input